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Web page development, NVU: anybody with experience?
by William L. Maltby 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi folks, I think this *might* be a product that the CentOS-affiliated community might like to include? I decide to buy a new truck because I don't drive my 'Vette enough to justify it and I can really use a P/U. Thought I would take advantage of RoadRunner's free home page (<= 5MB) to post pics, etc. to sell it. XML, HTML, SGML, DocBook... what's a n00b to do? Still working on getting my LVM fully config'd so I can test testdisk and I find I want to do this first (could almost pay for the trk). Found nvu 1.0 here http://www.nvu.com/download.php and downloaded this http://www.nvu.com/download/linux/1.0/nvu-1.0- RedHat_and_Fedora/nvu-1.0-1.rhel4.fs.i386.rpm (kde version, non-kde also available) which is supposed to be compatible with CentOS AFAICT. It installs and starts up OK on my fully updated 4.3 (including this A.M.s mutt and php updates). Well, *that's* enough by itself to ask one of the great CentOS associated repo folks to make it available for all of us. It's intended for "casual users" I guess and if no one has anything bad to say about it, other than it's for insophisticates like myself, I'd like to see it in the CentOS community and available. Any comments? It's open, free, has some financial support from this product http://www.linspire.com/lindows_sales_intro.php. Only neg I see at the outset is that it's been a little dormant. As I use it, I'll post thoughts if anybody requests such. -- Bill

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RE: [CentOS] Speaking of 3Ware/RAID/SATA/9550SX...
by Mark Schoonover 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Yes, I did try to boot off a 4.5TB device. Now, the individual partitions are: / 1GB /dev/sda2 ext3 /boot 250MB /dev/sda1 ext2 (Marked as primary partition.) swap 1024 /dev/sda3 ext3 /data 4.449TB /dev/sda4 ext3 All 9 drives are RAID5 together via the 3Ware card. Tomorrow, I'll don my earplugs and create a small 1TB RAID device to install CentOS, then RAID5 the remaining 7 drives for all the data. I'l recreate the partitions above in the 1TB array, then use LVM to add the remaining 3.5TB into the LVs I need. I could also read up on array carving, that's new to me. Thanks for all the help on this, I really thought I was doing something silly with the BIOS or some other setting. Didn't realize I would be running into limits of the OS. Now, if anyone knows how to tune this thing for best write performance, that would be really cool. This server is part of a tapeless backup system using rsync. There's a good howto in the Linux Hacks book. We started from that, and it's just grown into a fully automated system that does hourly, daily and weekly backups. Plus, it sends it offsite to a colo location.... In case people were wondering why so much disk space... Mark

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RPM: any better way to reinstall only certain files?
by William L. Maltby 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

My former primary boot disk had some bad spots appear awhile back. Damage, per rpm --verify, seems to be predominately in loss of reference files in /usr/share/doc and such as that. Being the type that wastes my own time before wasting that of others, I did a semi-careful perusal of the rpm man pages. Thought the --files or some such might offer a way ought. IIUC, nope! Seems that I can't select specific files. It looks like I could do a new install in a new root (chrooted) and then copy the files out, but I was already aware of an apparently easier way I had used years ago, rpm2cpio (easier because I can use the verify output list, slightly edited and reduced, to select the desired files. Thought "Well, it probably can do what I want, I just missed it. Maybe tutorials, HOWTOs, etc. will give the answer". So, using the TOC of each of these, I probed in vain (in that vein, it was fruitless but not painless :-). http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/betterliving/ http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/betterliving-part2/ I've settled on rpm2cpio unless someone can point me in a better direction. TIA -- Bill

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 17, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2006:0539 Important CentOS 4 ia64 vixie-cron - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0539 Important CentOS 4 axp vixie-cron - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0539 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) vixie-cron - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 mutt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 4 axp mutt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) mutt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 mutt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) mutt - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 4 axp php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 mutt - security update (Tru Huynh) 14. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 mutt - security update (Tru Huynh) 15. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 php - security update (Tru Huynh) 16. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 php - security update (Tru Huynh) 17. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 18. CESA-2006:0577-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 mutt security update (John Newbigin) 19. CESA-2006:0539 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 vixie-cron - security update (Johnny Hughes) 20. CESA-2006:0539 Important CentOS 4 i386 vixie-cron - security update (Johnny Hughes) 21. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 mutt - security update (Johnny Hughes) 22. CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 mutt - security update (Johnny Hughes) 23. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 php - security update (Johnny Hughes) 24. CESA-2006:0568 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 php - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:56:16 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0539 Important CentOS 4 ia64 vixie-cron - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060712185616.GH22010(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0539 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Re: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0577 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 mutt - security update
by David Hrbáč 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Tru Huynh napsal(a): > i386: > updates/i386/RPMS/mutt-1.4.1-3.5.rhel3.i386.rpm > > source: > updates/SRPMS/mutt-1.4.1-3.5.rhel3.src.rpm > Well, maybe I'm wrong, but I do not see any yesterday updates on mirrors. David Hrbáč

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format fat32 filesystem
by Mark Quitoriano 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi, when i run mkfs using this command mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda5 i get this mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory is there a module i need to install to support vfat? -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441

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RE: [CentOS] Speaking of 3Ware/RAID/SATA/9550SX...
by Mark Schoonover 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 at 10:16am, Mark Schoonover wrote > >> I just built up a server running CentOS 4.3, and trying to boot from >> a 3Ware 9550SX-16ML, 16 port card. This system has 9x500GB drives, >> AMD Opteron, Tyan K8SD mobo and 1 GB of ram. I downloaded the latest >> (9.3.0.4) driver from 3Ware, and after a couple of botched attempts, >> I got CentOS installed. In my two botched attempts, the problem was >> X hanging during the formatting of the drives, so I switched to >> another virtual screen while formatting took place, and the system >> didn't freeze. >> >> My problem now is the system won't boot. I know this is not exactly >> a CentOS problem, I'm just hoping some kind sole would help me outta >> this overworked fog I'm in. When the system tries to boot, the >> cursor just sits there in the left corner of the screen flashing. >> Nothing happens. I am probably missing something very simple, that >> will cause me great public embarrassment, but I really don't care >> right now. > > How is your array setup? You can *not* boot from a device >4TiB. On > such a device, you must use a gpt disklabel and neither grub nor LILO > support such. My array size is 4.5TB. It's just one large single RAID5, so it's slightly less than 4.5TB. So, what you're saying then is to either put a small single HD to install CentOS, or make the array smaller than 4.5TB. I could easily make something much smaller, say ~1TB, install CentOS on that. Once that's finished, create the rest of the array as another array at the size that I need. Could use LVM to stitch it all together... I'll give this a try, thanks for the help. Mark

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AMD 64 - I20/ I20_blocks
by Karl R. Balsmeier 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

I'm trying to install either 32-bit or 64 bit centos 4.3 and I keep getting an error: "No valid devices were found on which to install filesystems". In checking BIOS and RAID, everything seems fine, but I just found some research about I20. An alternative would be the i2o_blocks module. How can I install CentOS 4.3 x86_64 using i2o_blocks? How do I instruct the boot prompt to find this driver and get me past the above error? Even in 32-bit I still get this error as well. -karl

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tftp question
by Jerry Geis 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

I have tftp running on a computer. done with yum install tftp and yum install tftp-server. The computer has 2 network cards in it. Everything else on this computer is working fine. My tftp config is : # description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file transfer \ # protocol. The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \ # workstations, download configuration files to network-aware printers, \ # and to start the installation process for some operating systems. service tftp { socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -v -s /tftpboot disable = no per_source = 11 cps = 100 2 flags = IPv4 } When I am on the computer and I "tftp localhost" an request a file it will give it to me. when I "tftp localip" it will say connection timeout, when I "tftp INTERNETIP" is says connection refused. note localhost, localip and INTERNETIP are all the same computer. I have the firewall allowing tftp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:tftp ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp dpt:tftp What might I be missing here? Thanks, Jerry

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Problem with CentOS 4.3 and ldap
by Myron Williams 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

I currently have a server with centos 4.3 setup to do email. I use sendmail as the receiving agent and Dovecot as the pop/imap server. Users authenticate off of a openldap server. Under a light load things appear to work fine. However under a moderately heavy load connections are left open in a waiting state. This causes some email to bounce with user unknown, users authentications fails with bad username/password all with valid accounts. I am trying to figure out what the cause is to fix it but with out success. By restarting ldap and the ldap server I can minimize the problem because the connections get reset. I find nothing when I google on the subject. I don't believe this is a problem with the ldap server because I have a Fedora core machine using it without problems. Any help or ideas on how to track down the problem would be appreciated. Myron Williams

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